That's an upgrade I would happily pay for. They really need to look at how Altium handles this. It's especially annoying because when you change to a different part with a different footprint, the schematic rewires itself based on the footprint. This particular area, though, is really not thought through well at all and I wish they'd take it more seriously. For what it does and the price, Diptrace is pretty darn good, even with all the little things that we'd all like to see fixed.
If THIS is your gripe, then you're not alone. If they put a fraction of the effort into fixing this as they did into differential pairs, it would be a tremendous improvement. You end up with a lot of completely unnecessary duplication, and propagating changes is very manual and very error prone. The thing that sucks is the actual library management and structure. It's to the point that I use exactly zero included components and simple make my own libraries. Component and pattern creation in DipTrace is possibly the easiest I've seen. I'm not really sure what part of the process is giving you trouble. Why is this so difficult in DipTrace? Am I the only one who feels this way or are there others who just suck it in and keep quiet?
The process of combining a symbol and a pattern into a component is done with another program which assigns symbol pins to component pads. There should be separate editors for each.
A component consists of a schematic symbol and a PCB pattern. I really can't understand why it's so obtuse.
It seems like this section of the software was created by a completely different programming team who never used a good PCB CAD system before. I've been struggling with this for days and still find the process to be very non-intuitive and elusive. I stumbled on DipTrace which seems to be very intuitive and much like PCAD, except for library component creation. I looked at many packages, including the immensely popular Eagle, which I find to be very convoluted in almost every respect. I've been looking at alternatives to our venerable PCAD 2002 system which has served us well but is no longer supported.
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